Stefan Doering

Stefan Doering has been innovating in environmental business and sustainability since 1987. He also teaches and coaches green businesses in three major areas: 

• innovating powerful green business models,
• crafting and implementing marketing and positioning strategies for bringing green to mainstream, and
• creating a consistently profitable and sustainable business.

• Developed green intrapreneurship strategy for General Motors that was included in their final bailout plan presented to Congress in December, 2008
• Business coaching a variety of businesses with programs having reached almost 2,000 business innovators in 13 countries
• Teaching landmark courses on green entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship at Columbia University’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
• Teaching courses for small businesses at the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation (ITAC), a leading non-profit in NYC for small business development
• Certified facilitator and “green” advisor for the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s largest non-profit entrepreneurial training organization.
• Pioneered green retailing, growing it to one of the largest green retail companies in the US, selling over 3,500 different products screening for their environmental impact.
• Guest speaker / panelist on topics ranging from how to start a green company to Corporate Sustainability to “greening” the music industry
• Advisor and/or presenter at NYU/PolyTech’s ACRE, Green Spaces, Green Drinks NYC and Pratt Institute’s green incubators in New York City
• Co-founder of Manhattan Chamber of Commerce’s Green Finance Subcommittee
• In mid-90’s Director of the Board for the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment (BCUE), a large urban environmental education non-profit
• In 1990, co-founded the first council for sustainable businesses in New York City
• In 1986 launched One Earth, an environmental education non-profit for early adoption of intensive recycling programs in NYC